slave based societies in the CaribbeanSlave based societies in the Caribbean developed according to selections from “The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism” slowly as a result of the equal participation of both the masters and the slaves. Usually the color of one’s skin quickly determined which social group and what your occupation would be with of course the darker you are the lower your status and the lighter the higher. Eventually the Africans and whites started to mix and so did the color of the children which made them “not-so-good” field workers. The slaves of mixed race usually were craftier with the domestic, skilled, and artisanal trades. The Caribbean tended to be pretty urban throughout. The Caribbean had different social groups called caste systems. The 3 caste that developed were the slaves, the free persons of color, and the white people. These caste systems were not static or unmovable which meant that once you were in a certain caste you were not stuck there. If you were a slave you could very much so become a free person of color. African slaves that were brought to the Caribbean were called bozales. The Creole’s were slaves that were born in the Caribbean. Among the slaves there were different criteria ranks that were based upon color, sex, and occupation. There were also different “gangs” throughout the slave society. The first gang consisted of the strongest of the slaves both men and women aged from about sixteen to fifty whom all were given the hardest of the assigned labors. The second gang consisted of weak or elderly men and women who could work but not as hard as the first gang. The third of the gangs which is also called a small gang consisted of the boys and girls who had 3

fairly light work given to them. They were usually six to twelve years of age. These gangs were mixed in and were usually more so like the men did all the hard labor while the women worked but mostly stayed and cared for the children....

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Slavery done so we do not need to remember it!” Respond to this statement drawing specific reference to the nature of slavesociety and how the enslaved fought against their enslavement.
Slavery done so we do not need to remember it!” Respond to this statement drawing specific reference to the nature of slavesociety and how the enslaved fought against their enslavement.
Every society, in the Caribbean or anywhere else, is a product of the particular historical forces that shaped it and gave it form. For the Caribbean the most impactful historical force was the introduction of slavery and slavesocieties to the Caribbean and the period thereafter, up until its abolition. Although slavery is done, it is still important that we remember it and those who fought against it for freedom.
Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by another, who control where they live and at what they work. Slavery brings about a particular kind of society as a slavesociety. (N.p, 2009) A slavesociety is one where the fundamental class conflict is based on the division of people into masters and slaves, with slaves being the dominant producing class, and ownership over this complete...

...﻿Couse Name: Law, Governance, Society and Economy in the Caribbean
Course Code: FOUN1301
Date Due: April 8th, 2014
Question: How far is it true to say that the plantation is still with us?
There is still evidence of the plantation society within the modern CaribbeanSociety. This evidence can be seen from first analyzing various aspects of the plantation system or society, such as the; lifestyle, mentality, social structure and economic model associated with this social system. Then a comparison will be made between the plantation and modern Caribbeansocieties in relation to these aspects, to show their relevance in the modern Caribbeansociety.
The era of slavery which occurred in the Caribbean during the 16th to 19th centuries put into place a social and political order which formed the social structure and class related lifestyles of the plantation system. The social structure of the plantation society was static and pyramidal in design. At the top of the social pyramid was the white ruling class or the planter class which consisted of the white plantation owners and those who were closely associated with them. Directly under the white ruling class was the mixed or mullatto population along with the poor whites and free people of colour, who still contributed to social fabric of the...

...Pros and Cons of a Tech BasedSociety
Pros Of Technology
In the 21st century, technology has become an increasing crucial part of everybody’s life – whether they admit it or not. In some cases, technology completely controls a person. Cell phones, laptops, television, videogames have come to be an accepted aspect of our everyday lives. The debate we set out to resolve today is whether or not this surge in technology is more beneficial or harmful to our education. We will attempt to reveal the more positive side of technology. Undoubtedly, cell phones and computers can be utilized to maximize our work potential. However, studies have shown that even television and videogames, in moderate amounts, have beneficial effects.
In recent years, the cell phone has become a minimized laptop which has allowed people to utilize even the smallest windows of time. While our generation has shifted to sharing even the most intimate, trite details (I ate a cupcake today! It was great!! lol), the ease at which we can communicate should not be necessarily be viewed in a purely negative light. Many jobs require constant contact and the ability to instantly transfer information has shaped the business world. Additionally, Cell phones allows the individual to escape the cubicle and be able to complete work in any environment
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...Resistance and Revolt
Slaves resisted enslavement in two ways:
Insurrectionary/ Active Resistance
Non- insurrectionary/ Passive Resistance
Non- Insurrectionary Resistance
This form of resistance was subtle and non-violent used by the slaves to convey their rejection to slavery.
Methods of passive resistance include:
Grand Marronage (Running away for extensive periods)
Malingering (Working slowly; effective around harvest time as this would put the planters behind schedule)
Suicide (slaves believed that after death their spirits returned to Africa thus they killed themselves to acquire permanent, irreversible freedom)
Pretending to be sick
Pretending ignorance( not understanding what the planters or slave drivers were saying)
Ill-treating and killing estate animals( expensing the planter
Passive resistance was not very detectable and however if realized the acts had already been done.
Insurrectionary Resistance
This type of resistance was violent and often widespread.
Methods of this form of resistance include:
Rebelling
Strikes
Poisoning slave masters ( often used Arsenic to do this)
Rebellions and Revolutions
A Rebellion: An act of open resistance usually or a violent nature towards to a person or group in authority.
A Revolution: An overthrow of a government or social order by force for a new system to commence.
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...﻿In the Caribbean there has been a drastic shift in the relationship between men and women. Men, who were traditionally seen to be the head of the household, now have their roles taken over by the women in Caribbeansociety. Due to men failing to live up to their responsibilities, especially in the economic sense, the women are forced to take advantage of education, not only to better themselves but to also prove their indispensability in the social and economic framework of the society. These newly found duties are coupled with their own traditional roles as mother, nurturers and care. Women are now major contributors to their society. Women these days are more independent than in the past. There is a greater demand more from their lives and they now choose how they want to live. This could be a reason for the increase in divorces over the last half a century. This independence has also meant more single women. This shift in the relationship between men and women in the Caribbean could also be as a result of women’s movements where the view of the hegemonic femininity has affected the way in which most women are viewing their life and are becoming more like men. Women were now doing male oriented subjects such as physics, technical drawing etc., which might increase the job opportunities for these women and more women have taken advantage equal rights policies which would allow them to be...

...Buying and Selling Slaves
Before the Civil War, nearly 4 million black slaves toiled in the American South. Modem scholars have assembled a great deal of evidence showing that few slaves accepted their lack of freedom or enjoyed life on the plantation. As one ex-slave put it, “No day dawns for the slave, nor is it looked for. It is all night — night forever.” For many, the long night of slavery only ended in death.
In 1841, a bounty hunter kidnapped Solomon Northup, a free black man from Saratoga, New York, on the pretext that he was a runaway slave from Georgia. When the bounty hunter sold him into slavery, Northup lost his family, his home, his freedom, and even his name.
Solomon Northup was taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was put into a “slave pen” with other men, women, and children waiting to be sold. In “Twelve Years a Slave,” a narrative that Northup wrote after he regained his freedom, the citizen of New York described what it was like to be treated as human property:
Freeman [the while slave broker] would make us hold up our heads, walk briskly back and forth, while customers would feel of our heads and arms and bodies, turn us about, ask us what we could do, make us open our mouths and show our teeth.... Sometimes a man or woman was taken back lo the small house in the yard, stripped, and inspected more minutely....

...concern, in South Carolina black slaves made up most of the population. The African colony moved one person to South Carolina in 1737 he said that Carolina looks more like a negro country than like a county settled by white people. Christopher Gadsden was scared that Carolina would be very weak because of having such a huge number of slaves among them. This is the main argument of the Revolution. Roughly 80,000 slaves lived in the colony of mostly rice and indigo plantations in the city of Charleston.
Slaveowners started to believe that blacks are a hard and strong race and are dangerous to their enemies. Slaves are ready to fight at their first opportunity. Slaves out number white men 8 to 1. Slaves were put to death after committing violent crimes against whites. Whites started lacking manpower to control the slaves. During the colonial period slaves resisted their bondage in various ways. Their forms of protest included the murder of their owners, sabotage of crops, animals, and tools, suicide, and running away. Some of the runaways in Georgia and South Carolina formed maroon communities that often raided nearby plantations for food. Rebellions constituted an additional form of protest. The larger slave population in the South made the fear of insurrection greater there. In fact, the largest slave rebellion of the colonial period,...

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